Rozinante
Designed by L Francis Herreshoff
28ft x 24ft x 6ft 4in x 3ft 9in, Disp approx 6,600lbs
It could be argued that Rozinante is more ketch than yawl, but we’ll cut her some slack, especially as L Francis Herreshoff’s style of cruising is definitely our own. And Brooklin, Maine designer/builder Doug Hylan has redrawn her with the mizzen further aft, if you’re interested. Plans including both the ketch and yawl variants are available from the Purchasing Xanax Online. These drawings are from LFH’s 1950s book The Compleat Cruiser and show her with the Dutch-style short gaffs instead of the more commonly seen Bermudan rig. Originally designed for timber construction, Rozinante was also produced in GRP by Cheoy Lee Shipyards.
LFH wrote this in The Rudder many years ago:
This little yacht is a small double ender of a type that used to be called canoe yawls, and in the 1890’s was a very popular type in England for cruising some of their delightful waterways like the Clyde, Firth of Forth, Humber, Mersey, and of course the Solent in days gone by. The canoe yawl is sort of a descendant of some of the sailing canoes that were used in these waters for cruising during the previous decade. The name “canoe yawl” simply means a boat with a sharp stern that is larger than the usual sailing canoe, or about the size of what was called a yawl boat in those days. Admiral Smyth in his dictionary of nautical terms, 1867, describes a yawl as “A man-of-war’s boat resembling a pinnace, but rather smaller; it is carvel-built, and generally rowed with twelve oars.” The term “canoe-yawl” in its day had nothing to do with the rigs these pretty vessels used, for among them there were sloops, ketches, yawls, luggers, and cat yawls, but my knowledge of the past is not sufficient for me to state definitely that the name of the yawl rig did not come from that sail plan being often used on boats that were called yawls or yawl boats. Of course, many yawl boats had no rig. I, myself, am old enough to remember when the canoe yawls were still in vogue, so I will tell you what some of there characteristics were and that will partly explain Rozinante.
A canoe yawl should be light and rather narrow so that she may be easily propelled by rowing when necessary. It should be a good sea boat and a fast sailer under a small sail plan. It should have a comparatively shallow draft so that occasionally a person can land from one without a tender and, although Rozinante is quite a little deeper than is usual for a canoe yawl (many of them had a centerboard that went through a shallow ballast keel) still I think there are many places where Rozinante could be rowed close enough to shore so one could land over the bow in less than two feet of water.
A good canoe yawl should not have any combustible or noise makers [sic] aboard so that one can really relax and commune with God and Mother Nature but still use his wits in the interesting game of getting the most out of tide and wind. A good canoe yawl will give more lasting pleasure for the dollar than any other vessel except a double-paddle canoe, and while her first cost may be considerable these days, if she is treated sensibly she will not depreciate much in forty years, and her annual expense will be negligible. Best of all a canoe yawl can be about the safest vessel that can be had, since her design is based on those most seaworthy boats ever known — whaleboats. Rozinante is a partly decked-over whale boat with a ballast keel that will make her non-capsizable. She is rigged with a sail plan which can be decreased without perceptibly affecting her balance, and she can be made to lay to in a seaway under the mizzen alone. A boat of this type can be gotten under way or laid up for the night in a few minutes, so that she is practical to use on summer evenings, often the pleasantest times of all for sailing, while evening sailing is generally out of the question with the more complicated or larger craft on account of the time factor.
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Rozinante is superb and I think perfect for me, however taxes and other costs plus the dreaded EU Lesieure Craft Directive make importing one into the UK impractical. Perhaps I can get a europeanised version built here that would conform to the LCD and be slightly adapted to suit our rougher, wetter summer weather i.e. longer cabin shorter cockpit, bridge deck and some sort of inboard motor. I really like the short gaff version having a heavy smack yacht at present; thats like a Friendship Sloop.
I’ve always loved the Rozinante ,I wood like to see a longer house on her and smaller cockpit for going offshore or self bailing cockpit.I think this would make her a boat for blue water.Also maybe a bit more beam lets say 8′.chris hunt.
I happened to be wondering why the Roz is so unique wrt to other yawls while driving down I-95 through New Hampshire just as an Old Town canoe passed me to the left on top of a (red) Volvo.
It struck me just then that LHF’s being from around here meant that he was directly influenced by canoe design rather than just hearing about it as the Brits did –esp those tucked in ends.
I would extend it to 35′ which would give it the legal road beam (width) of 8′ 6″ but I really want a twin-keeler to handle Fundy 30-foot tide
I do not understand the reference to Brits ‘just hearing about it’ The Canoe Yawl proper first appeared in Yorkshire in 1891, a design called ‘Ethel’ by Albert Strange. The first American offering was ‘Snickersee’ of 1898 by W P Stephens. Stephens developed the idea of a canoe counter in isolation from Strange and initially thought it unique but later conceded that Strange was there first. The two men corresponded for many years and the type was well known in the US by the early 1900’s. Strange in fact designed at least two for US/Canadian owners at the time. I would therefore suggest that LFH ‘just heard about it’